MANAGERIAL CAPACITY, STAFF TRAINING AND PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ EFFECTIVENESS IN EDUCATION ZONE OF OYO STATE

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of managerial capacity and staff training on public secondary school teachers’ effectiveness in Education Zone II of Oyo State. The study adopted descriptive survey design. Multistage sampling procedure was used to gather data for the study. Proportional to size sampling technique was used to select 15% of the respondents which was 440 teachers from 31 schools out of the 2931 teachers from 154 public secondary schools and 31 principals that are in the five local government areas in Ibadan zone II. A self-developed instrument titled "Managerial Capacity, Staff Training and Teachers Effectiveness Questionnaire-0.81 (MCSTTEQ) for teachers and "Teachers Effectiveness Questionnaire -0.84 (TEQ) for school principals in Oyo State Zone II. Four hypotheses were tested using inferential statistics of multiple regression analysis, Person Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) and Multiple regression at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed positive and significant relationship between managerial capacity and teachers effectiveness in Education Zone II, Oyo State (r = 0.269, p < 0.005), motivation was significantly correlated with teachers effectiveness (r = 0.482, p <0.05), leadership style and teachers’ effectiveness (r = 0.499, p < 0.05), communication skills and teachers’ effectiveness (r = 0.505, p < 0.05).The study also showed that managerial capacity and staff training have linear and significant influence on public secondary school teachers’ effectiveness in Education Zone II, Oyo State (F_(9,428) =39.091, P = 0.000 < 0.05). Based on the findings, it was recommended that teachers should be encouraged to attend seminars, workshops and conferences, while school principals should improve in their managerial capacity in order to increase teachers' effectiveness in schools.